Amid a broad slackening of the U.S. labor market, and in spite of campaign promises to save “Black jobs,” the unemployment rate for Black workers is surging under President Donald Trump. According to seasonally adjusted data published Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the unemployment rate for Black Americans rose from 7.2 percent…
In a major victory for the Donald Trump administration, a federal appeals court ruled Monday, that 19 mostly Democratic-led states and Washington, D.C., could not pursue their lawsuit challenging the dismissal of nearly 25,000 recently hired federal employees. The Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, held that the states lacked standing…
A Lee’s Summit, Montana, IHOP restaurant is accused of making their staff wait weeks for their paychecks — and on top of that, the air conditioning isn’t working either. One staffer, identified only as Linda, told KMBC 9 Investigates that it’s going on six weeks with no paycheck. “People might say, ‘Well, why do you…